Simple really. Don't go trolling, don't just stand around, don't intentionally hinder other players.

Send some stickers, react to other players. Have fun.

You might have seen other players being affected by your attacks or getting kicked around yourself, this is called tripping and really annoying, to prevent it you should equip a Shock Absorber (Shockproof) or Flinch Free (Brace) decoration. Shock Absorber keeps you from hitting others or getting hit while Flinch Free only protects you but can stop some reactions to very weak monster attacks (really. look it up, it's not worth much)

When someone has mounted the monster everyone else does severely reduced damage. So use that time to sharpen, re-apply buffs, heal or prepare a strong attack to release once it's down.

You can craft more heals, traps or pods simply by having the ingredients on hand. I always carry 5 Mandragora and Catalyst to make more Max Potions.

There are traps everywhere in the world that can significantly speed up hunts. Sometimes it's even possible to stun a fleeing monster. Hint: Lagiacrus

When you join any quest the goal is to hunt a specific monster. So doing anything else is just wasting everyone's time. If you want to sightsee play alone :D

Simply open the map, look where the other players are and help. When in doubt bigger monster first. Monsters in multiplayer are more aggressive and have more health, you should never fight alone.

You might think "wow healing is so good, I'll just sit back and heal my team"
That's not a good idea.

• you do no damage
  
• you don't distract the monster
  
• you make teammates rely on your heals - if you can't heal they might die

It's just not a fun or effecfive strategy, you are more helpful in the fight.

These things are awesome, any time the monster is leaving the area just shoot it with this and you get another minute in the ring.

Lifepowder or Dust of Life. Occasionally healing everyone makes the hunt much safer overall.

Everyone does more damage yay!

You know how busted these things are when playing alone right? Now picture 4 hunters wailing on a downed monster, yeah. And as a bonus you can use them to save other players that have been grabbed.

Again: stunning the monster while 4 players are hitting it is awesome! Capturing is good to get hunts over faster, especially when you already used 2/3 faints.

To clarify: I am talking about using a Focus Strike on a wound. Hitting wounds normally is fine!

Be mindful of why you're popping a wound. Is the wound about to run out? Do you get a special effect?

• Sword & Shield
  
• Lance
  
• Gunlance
  
• Light Bowgun
  
• Heavy Bowgun
  
• Bow

If your weapon is on this list, kindly leave wounds for others.

When the monster is fleeing popping a wound can get them to stagger and stay longer, especially blue (tempered) wounds do this. So when you have the opportunity go for it!

After the monster used a particularly strong attack you can attack a part of its body (usually the head) as if it were a wound, but only for a moment. A good example of this is Rey Dau after he uses his Laser/Zap attack he opens his head and horns which is then a weakpoint.

Since these are so fleeting everyone can use them.

These weapons are particularly suited to MP hunts. In general lighter weapons that sheath faster are better.
SnS can famously use items while the weapon is unsheathed, allowing users to heal teammates or use traps really fast.
Hammer can stun the monster better than any other weapon creating openings for everyone to do damage.
The buffing weapon, do i need to explain this?
A fast sheath speed combined with being ranged means players can buff or heal safely. And there are ammo types exclusively for teamwork.

Consider these effects as they are much stronger in a group.

These skills can be helpful in multiplayer.
They are only suggestions, use your own judgement on what you think is needed.

I've touched on this in the first section, this skill stops tripping completely.

A good teammate is one that doesn't faint. This is the best defensive skill. Heroics, Speed Eating, Evade Extender and Evade Window are also good. Use "Resistance" skills (stun, poison etc.) when applicable.

Wide Range is an Armor Skill that "Allows the effects of certain items to also affect nearby allies", in caveman speak: YOU HEAL - WE HEAL. Combine with Free Meal and go to slurp town on those mega potions.

These are the main multiplayer skills. Almost every skill is good situationally, check out the comments for what other players like.

Here's how it worked in older MH titles: When the monster is falling asleep everyone stopped attacking and placed bombs on it and the greadsword player lines up a TCS to get the wakeup hit.

Nowadays that's just not done anymore, it takes far too long. Bombs only deal ~250 damage, even the wakeup hit is maybe 2000dmg from an endgame greatsword. In the time it takes for the setup you can easily deal the same damage with normal attacks and you don't even need bombs. The sleep status still creates a good opening but don't stop attacking.

Bombs need to be buffed for this to make sense, if you could carry 5 maybe that would change things idk.

Bombs just suck, read above.

* as opposed to capturing it
Rewards you get differ slightly depending on whether you capture or carve the monster. The biggest change comes from food buffs like carver, capture pro or exploiter. Do your own research.

However it is common practice to capture the monster once it's weak enough. It is simply faster and everyone wants to get to the next hunt.

If you really need a specific partbreak you can ask for it in chat.

I personally think that capturing is a bit of an abrupt ending to a hunt but the fact is: everyone can trap, tranq and capture the monster, it's how the game works.